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Migraine can be treated with Botox

Botox injections have been recommended by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, NICE, to treat migraines where other drugs have failed. Whether it should get funded by the NHS or not is what is being pondered upon.

Blinding headaches were something the Wendy Thompson, from Billingham, could not take and they were impacting her life in a big way. But, her condition had become much better after receiving Botox injections.

UK economy will likely return to growth this summer: CBI predicts

The UK economy will likely return to growth in summer this year with the recovery gaining pace next year, business lobby group CBI predicted.

The CBI admitted that the UK economy remained bumpy over the winter, but it would resume growth during the second quarter of current year.

Ian McCafferty, chief economic adviser at the CBI, said, "Business surveys suggest that underlying conditions are starting to improve, and that we should see more momentum in the second half of the year."

Net lending to firms drops by £96.5bn

Net lending in the form of bank loans to firms in the UK declined by nearly £100 billion over the past three-and-a-half years, stats released by the Bank of England showed.

According to the Bank of England stats, released on Wednesday, the amount that UK banks raked in but then declined to lend to firms hit £96.5 billion between November 2008 and March this year.

Net lending can be described as the difference between the total sum of loans disbursed by banks to firms and the total amount of money that they pay back.

Many errors in drug prescription by GPs

According to the official regulator, when drugs are prescribed to patients many mistakes are being done by GPs.

When it comes to prescription drugs, many errors were being made for about one out of six people, a General Medical Council review said.

The worst affected out of the lot were elderly and the young, according to the study that is based on 1,200 patients.

The report however stated that a majority of mistakes that happened were of a minor nature and were corrected by the pharmacists while giving medicines to patients.

Many people in UK are unaware about mouth cancer

Simplyhealth has seen that symptoms of mouth cancer are not known to a majority of Britons.

About 11, 785 were asked about the disease and it was stated by 70 per cent of the people that they did not know the symptoms associated with the disease. In 2010 this unawareness claimed about 2,000 lives in the UK.

There are many reasons for mouth cancer and the prime reasons for this are alcohol, poor diet and nutrition, smoking and human papillomavirus (HPV) infection.

Genital mutilations still on in UK

Reports have stated that FGM or female genital mutilation is something that about 100,000 women in UK have undergone. This is a crime and it has to be curbed as it still exists.

Reports stated that many doctors are responsible for carrying out this procedure on girls who are less than 10 years of age.

A doctor, a dentist and an alternative medicine practitioner have been filmed agreeing to carry out the procedure or arrange for it to be carried out.

The doctor and dentist have however stated that they have not agreed to any wrong doing.

Myth-busting panel comes into being

Public will be able to fight council health as to enable this ministers have set up a new myth-busting panel.

The panel can be contacted by people from today if they have a feeling that they have not been allowed to do something on spurious 'health and safety' grounds.

Advice will then follow by the 'Myth Busters Challenge Panel' on whether there has been a misuse of regulations and this will allow the victim to challenge their council over 'daft' decisions.

Doctor’s name struck off for 'mercy killing'

A doctor's name had been struck off from the medical register after he hid his truth from the NHS after getting a job as he was convicted for the `mercy killing' manslaughter of a patient in Spain.

A General Medical Council, GMC, disciplinary hearing was told that despite being convicted for the above charges in Spain, for about two years, Dr Marcos Arel Hourmann worked for Dyfed Powys Police.

A fitness to practise panel ruled his concealment of the truth was `fundamentally incompatible with his continuing to practise medicine'.

Abortion act needs to be strengthened

Following cases of doctors signing consent forms for abortions without having any knowledge about a patient could make them get imprisoned.

A health watchdog investigated some clinics and it was seen that one out five clinics was not following legal guidelines following which the warning was issued.

The Abortion Act was breached by many doctors as there were cases in which some doctors were seen signing consent forms that allowed a woman to get an abortion done and that too without being aware of the reason why these women wanted abortions.

Parents urged to vaccinate kids as measles outbreak spreads

Health experts have warned that measles could spread further across Wales and to avoid this, parents should get their children vaccinated.

There have been a total of 30 cases of measles and seeing this, parents were urged to get their children immunized. Eleven fresh cases were reported and these have been linked to Ysgol Eifionydd School, in Porthmadog.

Due to low MMR take-up rates, measles have spread and it has been seen that all effected cases did not get their dose or had just one out of the two needed.

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